Banisteriopsis caapi wood, psychotria leaves and ayahuasca brew in wooden bowl. Walter Lopez, a traditional indigenous healer from Peru’s Shipibo tribe, remembers his first experience with the ...

Ayahuasca's mystical encounters often involve entities described as half-human and half-animal, such as beings with bird-like heads or centaur-like figures, half-human and half-horse, and many others.